Nasa scientists witness asteroid breaking apart - video

Images released by Nasa show an asteroid of around 600m in diameter breaking into pieces over a period of several months. The first images of their kind to be captured, they were taken with the Hubble telescope. Scientists do not believe the breakdown happened because of a collision with another object

Source: ITN

Friday 7 March 2014 10.22 EST
First published on Friday 7 March 2014 10.22 EST